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t is one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem.
- Lord Byron
Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
- François De La Rochefoucauld
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
- Alan Wilson Watts
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
- Michelangelo
When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion, of loving, that was not there when you were trapped in mental concepts. You are that depth.
- Eckhart Tolle
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
- Dalai Lama Xiv
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